in my own opinion catholicisim and christianity and heavy religious types can keep away(wouldve wrote something much more course but im trying to get the 2weeks without incurring morderator wrath badge)
What's your controversial opinion?
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we should have more Realisticly violent games like manhunt/manhunt and should get rid of age ratings and instead have a sort of maturity test to dtermine what games/movies you can and can't purchase...
Not sure if these are controversial but here we go.
I believe that a majority of stereotypes exist for a good reason.
I believe that current religious beliefs need a serious makeover.
I believe that humans are not meant to work the way we currently do.
I believe that people don't change.
I believe that we are meant to spend our lives with one person but that the chances of finding that person and realising it's them are incredibly low.
I believe that creativity is more important than science.
I believe that humans should put less energy into furthering ourselves and more energy in saving the planet.
I believe that animals have as much right to live as we do.
I believe that a majority of stereotypes exist for a good reason.
I believe that current religious beliefs need a serious makeover.
I believe that humans are not meant to work the way we currently do.
I believe that people don't change.
I believe that we are meant to spend our lives with one person but that the chances of finding that person and realising it's them are incredibly low.
I believe that creativity is more important than science.
I believe that humans should put less energy into furthering ourselves and more energy in saving the planet.
I believe that animals have as much right to live as we do.
This is the thing a lot of people forget in the debate. When someone holds up a sign labeled "Baby Murder" with a picture of a cute toddler on it, they are lying to your face. It's one of the reasons abortions usually aren't allowed after 8 weeks or something like that (could be way off with the time period there).Vault101 said:
In fact, nearly all zygotes, definitely in mammals and other animals to a lesser extent, look nearly identical at first. If someone actually looked at a human zygote, they could be forgiven for thinking it was a lizard.
Flame? No. Praise? Hell. Yes.BabyRaptor said:
As for my belief...
I suppose my controversial belief is that the African-American people who use "slavery" and "racism" to cause trouble, get out of trouble, or some combination of the two really need to shut the fuck up. Africans were NOT the only people to be enslaved and I'd say that the Jews had it worse in world war II.
Then again, I'm just tired of hearing it. I was called a racist once because a co-worker put a customer's item at the front of a line during holidays when the lines were long. The customer got up to the front of the line where I was cashiering and said we were racists, that we only put it there because she was black. No, you stupid fucking cow, we put it there because we're nice people that don't want you to have to stand there with arms packed even more than they are and for you to be uncomfortable. Die in a fire.
This is the kind of shit I hear all the time where I live, and it makes me see that there's a distinction between African-Americans and...well, that other word that people call black folks. It drives me up the fucking wall. I'm not a racist, I've had fewer white friends growing up than any other racial type. The only thing their racism is doing is keeping it alive and promoting it.
Oh my, I seem to have put way more into this than I meant to.
I believe animals have more worth than human's do.
Im pretty sure a good chunk of the population agrees with me on this.
Ask yourself why you care more when you hear about animal abuse then when you hear about some stranger dying...
Im pretty sure a good chunk of the population agrees with me on this.
Ask yourself why you care more when you hear about animal abuse then when you hear about some stranger dying...
Anyone who commits suicide is weak willed and doesn't deserve my respect, with exceptions.
I've gotten flame for it before, and I know it's not particularly right, but I hate to see life squandered.
I've gotten flame for it before, and I know it's not particularly right, but I hate to see life squandered.
I tend to agree with similar.squirrel. My best friend's little sister is extremely autistic. We actually had a conversation that went along the lines of this:Dulcinea said:
Me: "If you and your sister were about to die, who would you want me to save?"
BF: "Me, my sister isnt really... alive. She just takes up space, money and my families patience."
Me: "Yeah, I see what you mean."
Her sister is 18 and my best friend is going to have to take care of her the rest of her life. Could you imagine having to do that? Feed her, bathe her, change her diaper?
My judgement of the faith is mainly composed of my time practicing the religion. I'll pass on the details here, if you're curious you can message me. The fundies are just icing on the cake. If icing were something that angered you.t3h br0th3r said:
Here are a few of my somewhat controversial beliefs:
- Nothing is a crime until it affects someone other than the perpetrator in a way they a) do not have control over and b) do not want. Once a crime is committed however, the criminal has, in addition to standard judicial punishments, forfeited whatever rights they infringed upon with regards to their victim. In the cases of murder, the criminal no longer has the right to live. In the cases of infringing on rights the criminal no longer has (e.g. a child rapist stealing the innocence of a child) the criminal deserves cruel and painful punishment until they have experienced suffering equal to that which they have inflicted, based on the ruling of an (as much as humanly possible) objective party.
- Lives are only "sacred" to those affected by them. A billion anonymous deaths matter less to me than the death of a friend. Related to this belief is: People only matter in my life as long as I keep them in it. Once someone has exited my life's stage, I do not care about them until I bring them back.
- Humanity at its most basic, fundamental core is "bad," in that "good" is defined as selflessness, humility, etc. No amount of positive change enacted by people to affect those other than themselves will ever make up for the negative change/pain inflicted by people onto others.
- More things happened in previous ages (relative to the speed allowed by the era's technology) due to less conformity to "morality" and "ethics". I can't say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. What I can say is that conformity to morality and ethics will most assuredly slow progress, but whether or not sacrificing progress for morality/ethics is worth it is unknown.
- Humanity is, and will always be hypocritical. Corollaries of this belief are: everyone with whom I disagree is wrong, everything that I don't like shouldn't happen, and anyone who inflicts pain upon me deserves retribution.
- Anything taken to an extreme (most choose to project this onto religion, I prefer to keep it open-ended) is most likely going to produce negative results.
- People who, while unprovoked, actively pursue infringing on others' happiness are "worse" people than I am, and I am right to feel superior to them. People who indirectly condone infringing on others' happiness are better, but not innocent (I'm aware that this includes me).
- (This one is weirdly naive and light-hearted) When observed in retrospect, and taking into account all aspects of an individual's life, the relative amount of pain and joy (to fallaciously attempt to distill the spectrum of emotion into two words) experienced by each and every human being is equal.
- (This is a kind of "Wish from a genie" situation) If I could guarantee that no one I care about would die and that a semblance of the status quo of my immediate surroundings would remain intact, I would gladly permit the humane, painless, instant and simultaneous extermination of 2/3 of the world's population.
This one is my favorite, as it pretty much invalidates everything I've (and most anyone ever has) said.
- Everyone's opinion is not equal. The value of a given opinion is directly proportional to the percentage of total objective knowledge relating to the opinion known and understood by the person expressing it. Related: people are entitled to their opinion only until their opinion threatens the acceptance of a more valuable opinion based on the metric of value stated above.
- Nothing is a crime until it affects someone other than the perpetrator in a way they a) do not have control over and b) do not want. Once a crime is committed however, the criminal has, in addition to standard judicial punishments, forfeited whatever rights they infringed upon with regards to their victim. In the cases of murder, the criminal no longer has the right to live. In the cases of infringing on rights the criminal no longer has (e.g. a child rapist stealing the innocence of a child) the criminal deserves cruel and painful punishment until they have experienced suffering equal to that which they have inflicted, based on the ruling of an (as much as humanly possible) objective party.
- Lives are only "sacred" to those affected by them. A billion anonymous deaths matter less to me than the death of a friend. Related to this belief is: People only matter in my life as long as I keep them in it. Once someone has exited my life's stage, I do not care about them until I bring them back.
- Humanity at its most basic, fundamental core is "bad," in that "good" is defined as selflessness, humility, etc. No amount of positive change enacted by people to affect those other than themselves will ever make up for the negative change/pain inflicted by people onto others.
- More things happened in previous ages (relative to the speed allowed by the era's technology) due to less conformity to "morality" and "ethics". I can't say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. What I can say is that conformity to morality and ethics will most assuredly slow progress, but whether or not sacrificing progress for morality/ethics is worth it is unknown.
- Humanity is, and will always be hypocritical. Corollaries of this belief are: everyone with whom I disagree is wrong, everything that I don't like shouldn't happen, and anyone who inflicts pain upon me deserves retribution.
- Anything taken to an extreme (most choose to project this onto religion, I prefer to keep it open-ended) is most likely going to produce negative results.
- People who, while unprovoked, actively pursue infringing on others' happiness are "worse" people than I am, and I am right to feel superior to them. People who indirectly condone infringing on others' happiness are better, but not innocent (I'm aware that this includes me).
- (This one is weirdly naive and light-hearted) When observed in retrospect, and taking into account all aspects of an individual's life, the relative amount of pain and joy (to fallaciously attempt to distill the spectrum of emotion into two words) experienced by each and every human being is equal.
- (This is a kind of "Wish from a genie" situation) If I could guarantee that no one I care about would die and that a semblance of the status quo of my immediate surroundings would remain intact, I would gladly permit the humane, painless, instant and simultaneous extermination of 2/3 of the world's population.
This one is my favorite, as it pretty much invalidates everything I've (and most anyone ever has) said.
- Everyone's opinion is not equal. The value of a given opinion is directly proportional to the percentage of total objective knowledge relating to the opinion known and understood by the person expressing it. Related: people are entitled to their opinion only until their opinion threatens the acceptance of a more valuable opinion based on the metric of value stated above.
